Caught on camera: Russian nanny carries child's severed head outside Moscow metro station
Russian police detained a woman in a hijab brandishing the severed head of a child outside a Moscow metro station on Monday and charged her with murder.
The incident, which occurred on Monday, Feb. 29, stirred fears of an Islamist terrorist attack and was caught on camera by passers-by.
The woman, identified by local media as Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 39, is believed to be the nanny of the victim and is suspected of killing the child before setting fire to its parents' apartment.
The child has also been identified by local media as 4-year-old Nastya M. Earlier in the day, reports emerged that police had found a child's headless body while extinguishing a fire at a Moscow apartment block.
After the murder, Bobokulova was seen outside Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in northwest Moscow.
According to Lifenews.ru, an online news portal with close contacts to the police, a policeman had first approached the woman to check her documents, and that was when the woman removed the child's head from a bag and began shouting that she had killed the infant and threatened to blow herself up.
The woman was also caught on camera shouting, "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is Great,") leading onlookers to believe they were witnessing an act of terror. She was said to have wandered the area for about an hour.
Footage of the incident showed a policeman wrestling the woman to the ground before a group of colleagues helped restrain her. "Given the clearly deranged behavior of the detainee, investigators swiftly ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests to establish whether she is capable of understanding the significance of her actions," Moscow's investigative committee said in a statement.
Immigration authorities told media the woman was from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan and had been working in Moscow illegally.
The investigation is ongoing.
The incident, which occurred on Monday, Feb. 29, stirred fears of an Islamist terrorist attack and was caught on camera by passers-by.
The woman, identified by local media as Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 39, is believed to be the nanny of the victim and is suspected of killing the child before setting fire to its parents' apartment.
The child has also been identified by local media as 4-year-old Nastya M. Earlier in the day, reports emerged that police had found a child's headless body while extinguishing a fire at a Moscow apartment block.
After the murder, Bobokulova was seen outside Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in northwest Moscow.
According to Lifenews.ru, an online news portal with close contacts to the police, a policeman had first approached the woman to check her documents, and that was when the woman removed the child's head from a bag and began shouting that she had killed the infant and threatened to blow herself up.
The woman was also caught on camera shouting, "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is Great,") leading onlookers to believe they were witnessing an act of terror. She was said to have wandered the area for about an hour.
Footage of the incident showed a policeman wrestling the woman to the ground before a group of colleagues helped restrain her. "Given the clearly deranged behavior of the detainee, investigators swiftly ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests to establish whether she is capable of understanding the significance of her actions," Moscow's investigative committee said in a statement.
Immigration authorities told media the woman was from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan and had been working in Moscow illegally.
The investigation is ongoing.
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